Krukenberg tumors of the ovary: A clinicopathologic analysis of 120 cases with emphasis on their variable pathologic manifestations

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 277-299

  Kiyokawa, Takako ^a   Young, Robert H ^a   Scully, Robert E ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Krukenberg tumor; Neoplasm; Ovary

Indexed keywords

ALCIAN BLUE; CHROMOGRANIN A; COLLAGEN; EOSIN; GLYCOPROTEIN; HEMATOXYLIN; MUCIN; NEURON SPECIFIC ENOLASE; SEROTONIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL SWELLING; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AMENORRHEA; APPENDIX TUMOR; ARTICLE; ASCITES; BLADDER TUMOR; BREAST TUMOR; CANCER INVASION; CELL STRUCTURE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON TUMOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ENDOMETRIUM HYPERPLASIA; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HIRSUTISM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LUTEINIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MICROSCOPY; OVARY CARCINOMA; OVARY CYST; PREGNANCY; RECTUM TUMOR; SMALL INTESTINE TUMOR; STAINING; STOMACH TUMOR; STROMA CELL; SURVIVAL RATE; SURVIVAL TIME; TUMOR VOLUME; VAGINA BLEEDING; VIRILIZATION; HISTORY; METASTASIS; OVARY TUMOR; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HISTORY, 17TH CENTURY; HUMANS; KRUKENBERG TUMOR; OVARIAN NEOPLASMS; PREGNANCY;

EID: 33646000586     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.pas.0000190787.85024.cb     Document Type: Article

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